Jallikattu (2019) by Lijo Jose Pellissery

[cranefly]

Yeah, one of the cultural details that I missed while watching but picked up afterwards from wikipedia was that the village was allowed to raise and slaughter buffalo for meat, as it was viewed as a "domestic animal," but as soon as a buffalo escapes, it gets reclassified as a wild animal, and those buffalos are culturally protected.  That's what the police tried to enforce during their visit.  But the villagers weren't having any of it.

At least I think that was one of the conflicts.

I also think the terms cow and buffalo were used a bit interchangeably throughout.